Most states lack healthcare consumer protection laws

If 39 states do not enact laws to enforce new consumer protections in the Affordable Care Act, the federal government may have to step in to guarantee them.WASHINGTON — Nearly 4 out of 5 states have not enacted laws essential to enforcing new consumer protections in President Obama's healthcare law, less than a year before it is supposed to be fully implemented, a new survey indicates.

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